Email Filters

Be sure that messages forwarded to different locations are all processed the same way

Filter mail into Mailstore folders (Mailstore accounts only)

Messages can be searched for exact words or partial
patterns in the From, To, Subject, any header, or anywhere
in the message. They can be discarded, CCed, redirected or
have their subject tagged.

Three special add-ons that can be applied to your filters:

Push Notifications: Get an immediate alert
when a matching message comes in. Pobox can send push notifications
to Pushover and Prowl.

Mobile/pager delivery: Send your email to your phone via
SMS (if your phone provider has an email-to-SMS gateway.)
We reduce the text to get the most message into 160
characters.

Autoresponses: Set up custom message texts, and send
them to correspondents whose messages trigger your filter.
Their message will be sent on to your delivery
destination.

Delivery Groups

Mailstore and Plus accounts may select 6 Pobox addresses/aliases (and many more at their own domains!) They may assign those addresses
different delivery locations. Set up one address that sends
mail to your work account, and another one that is for
strictly personal use, and another one that sends copies to
both you and your spouse.

Check out our Pricing page for more details on address and volume limits. The
number of delivery locations on an account cannot exceed the
number of addresses.

Spam Protection

Spam protection isn't one size fits all. Some people
prefer to never see spam. Others would rather see a few
messages rather than take the risk that any legitimate message
would end up in a spam folder. At Pobox, we let you customize
your settings, to fit your own comfort level.

Messages flagged as spam are held or bounced, based on your settings.

We publish accuracy statistics for our filtering
levels, so you can decide.
Messages sent from your Trusted Senders are never
filtered.

Block By Country

Know you never correspond with folks in certain parts of the
world? Block all mail from that country or region, and see your spam
levels drop even further.

Select regions to block by country or continent.

Vacation Mail

Let people know you're away from your email with an easy autoreply.

Every correspondent gets just one copy, and you can schedule when
we should turn it on and off.

Trusted Senders

Trusted Senders only work if your correspondents are on your list. To make things as easy as possible on you, Trusted Senders can be added in 3 ways:

When you send mail, if you use Pobox's SMTP server

If you release a message from the Spam section.

by uploading an address book or file

We identify legitimate email marketing and other VERPed addresses (but let us know if we miss one!)
Advanced users may also choose to add:

domains or subdomains

servers and networks by IP address

SMTP Access

Pobox SMTP access is available to all accounts, and accepts
messages with sizes up to 25MB. All outbound mail is
checked against our spam filter and is rate-limited for the
protection of all SMTP users.This SMTP access is for
individual correspondence, and cannot be used to send mass
email, newsletters or transactional messages.